This means you need to use ‘chromeos-setdevpasswd’ from either shell or console to set your own password from build R55-8777 onwards.īy default, this also disables SSH access so if you also need this level of access, you will need to set a separate password using ‘sudo passwd chronos’. Older builds have the password of ‘password’. The password has been removed from build R55-8777 onward and will continue to be removed for better overall security. Please note: there is a new behaviour with the chronos user password. If you want to install to your hard drive, follow the instructions here and here. Use Win32 Image Writer, then select the IMG file and select the USB device from the menu.Īll builds based on amd64 and ARM generic board.Use 7zip to extract IMG file from the downloaded file.At the shell, run the following (where sdX is your USB stick and ChromeOS.img is the path to the IMG file you extracted):.Use p7zip to extract the IMG file from the downloaded file.This will be updated daily where builds compile succcessfully.

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